Jasmine Fiore Car Found in W. Hollywood

West Hollywood (myFOXla.com) - The white Mercedes-Benz belonging to murdered swimsuit model Jasmine Fiore was found on Wednesday in the parking lot of a West Hollywood market and was towed to Orange County, where it will be searched by homicide investigators.

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Investigators had been searching for the 2007 Mercedes CL S550 since Fiore, 28, was reported missing Aug. 15 by her one-time husband -- and eventual murder suspect -- Ryan Alexander Jenkins.

Fiore's mutilated body was found earlier that day inside a suitcase in a Buena Park trash bin, but the body remained unidentified for three days because her teeth and fingers had been removed. Authorities identified her using a serial number on her breast implants.

Fiore had been beaten and strangled, police said.

Jenkins, a 32-year-old former contestant on a VH1 reality show, was initially sought for questioning in the case, but he was later charged with murder and became the focus of an international manhunt. That hunt ended Sunday, when the Calgary native was found hanging by a belt from a coat rack in the Thunderbird Motel in Hope, British Columbia.

Somebody spotted Fiore's Mercedes in the parking lot of an empty building next to a Trader Joe's market at 8623 Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood, within walking distance of where the two lived, according to Buena Park police Sgt. Bill Kohanek.

The vehicle was impounded and was taken to the Orange County crime lab in Santa Ana for processing "for any possible evidence involving the homicide," police said.

The car was fairly dusty and appeared as if it had not been driven in awhile, Kohanek said. It was the car Jenkins and Fiore were last seen together in, he added. So far, investigators have not found Fiore's teeth or fingers in the car, according to Kohanek.

"There was nothing glaring or stood out about it" as far as evidence goes, Kohanek said of the Mercedes.

Fiore and Jenkins were married earlier this year in Las Vegas -- shortly after Jenkins had been eliminated from the VH1 reality show "Megan Wants a Millionaire" -- but the marriage had been annulled.

Jenkins and Fiore checked into a hotel on Aug. 13 in San Diego, where they attended a charity poker tournament. Witnesses said the two quarreled at the event and that Fiore was texting another man.

A security camera recorded Jenkins leaving the hotel the next morning alone, and Fiore was not seen alive again.

Authorities in Canada have been searching for a woman who helped Jenkins check into the motel where he was later found dead. A spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Monday authorities believe they know who the woman is.

Fiore, who recently moved to Los Angeles from Las Vegas, worked as a model in advertising and for Playboy as a representative and coordinator for "Girls of Golf," said her mother, Lisa Lepore.

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